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Novelist, college lecturer, and former political staffer. Lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, where she occasionally finds time to read and write. she/her https://linktr.ee/authoremmabarry
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it actually sounds if it only the mamas are ready for the revolution.
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the earlier shows definitely feel a bit more improvised, and the producer interventions are pretty obvious. later on, things are completely airless. there's no outside of the interventions.
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yeah, that's true. audiences cannot be trusted to be cool.
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oh for sure. but if the payoff declines, for producers and participants, I do wonder if something less cynical and more real might have some novelty value.
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same. but I have to admit, I would watch a dating reality show with that vibe. I really would.
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this makes sense to me. maybe more high concept series that you can only really do once because the premise is the hook.
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it certainly would be a novel approach...
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(I recently rewatched S1 of Project Runway, and everyone seemed so unself-aware, it was almost unsettling. obviously we'll never go back to that, but I do wonder if the entire goal and tone might become more sincere, more like GBBO or Blown Away or Great Pottery Throw Down.)
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I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE ABOUT THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO.
What do you think that means for reality TV moving forward?
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I knew what you meant!
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it is absolutely not factually accurate, but I loved it. it's emotionally accurate to some of the poems, certainly. but if you don't enjoy wildly anachronistic stuff (such as The Great), you might not enjoy it.
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so-called genius means that the rest of us should be grateful and allow him to bend whatever rules he wants, it's clear that NONE of them ever learned this lesson. and it would be sad if they weren't also wrecking the world in the process.
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it's so important to teach bright kids--whether they're testing taking bright or artistic bright or what have you--that being smart is one tiny component of who you are, and that it's no more or less meaningful than that. when I watch these guys trip over themselves to argue that Musk's
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I looked it up, and 1400 is in 93rd percentile (give or take). it's a very good, but not a great, score--and SATs are largely meaningless. I mean, they're just desperate to believe he's a genius, and not of the evidence suggests that.
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a 1400 isn't even "get a free ride at a selective school" territory, lol
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I use Prufrock as a bridge into Waste Land (for myself, I find Prufrock more emotionally engaging, but I appreciate the intellectual puzzle of WL). And I always teack Dickinson. She and Wallace Stevens are my favorites.
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for basically a total backwater, we've had a few great residents.
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and yes, I do appreciate that even famous, accomplished folks feel like frauds sometimes, because I feel like a fraud basically all the time.
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So he was born in Newport News (where I live), and I only know this because he routinely shows up on lists of our most famous denizens (along with Ella Fitzgerald and William Styron), lol
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Does anyone ever feel confident and authoritative at their job? Or do we all feel as if we're faking it forever and then we die?
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it's so much! I'm so sorry! is there anything I can do to help?
I do love the cover, and I hope it sells a bazillion copies.
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WAHOO. defeat all the Nazis!
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SAME.
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this is exactly where I'm at. I had bout of writer's block that coincided with Trump's first term, and honestly, I'm not giving that guy four more years of my creativity and attention. he doesn't deserve them. I will fight his policies, and I will write my kissing books, and he can't stop me.
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fingers crossed!
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reading always makes me feel like writing! and sometimes consuming or doing other creative stuff does too, like going to a museum (or looking at a good online exhibit), listening to music, baking, etc.
I hope you catch the bug again soon. xo
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next month, I need to start writing a new book, and I'm dreading it (even as I also know that I need the distraction of a new love story).
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I hope that your release goes amazing! I do think people want and need books now more than ever, even if feels weird to promote them given /gestures at the world/
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the irony of the Hunger Games surging in popularity again now is a lot!
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THANK YOU!
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I keep trying to convince myself that we're in the bleak moment, when it seems impossible that things will work out, but that they really work out, but it's hard to believe.
congrats on the upcoming release!!
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I was talking to Sarah about this book we're going to shop, and I got off the phone and it was like...who is going to buy a book right now? how can anyone even think about 2026 without laughing because who knows if there will be a 2026? lol
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In this version, it's "I am a man more sinning than sinned against."
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I've found good convo here, and because there's no algorithm, less outrage bait and promo. It feels the closest to the glory (pre 2016) days of book twitter.
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This is amazing!!! 😍😍
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Yes! I do see romance novel talk here, and I'd love to see more ♥️♥️♥️
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Advanced Reader Copy. It's just a preprint copy of a book that authors send to reviewers, librarians, and booksellers.
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and finally, if you requested a paper ARC from me or entered the ARC giveaway for my newsletter subscribers, it's on the way.
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USPS and home delivery of mail ROCK; they are fundamental services for the nation. and also postal workers are awesome. they are dedicated public servants, and they deserve good wages and working conditions.
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are you looking for a gothic?
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it sometimes is present in American rhetoric (Lincoln's "new birth of freedom" or there's a Thurgood Marshall speech about how America only becomes a democracy in the civil rights era), but it's not how we conceptualize it at all.
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I buy this. "the planter-slave faux-republic, 1789-1861" "the failed Reconstruction-Jim Crow era, 1861-1965" "the liberal consensus republic, 1965-2010," "the oligarchy-neoliberal era, 2010-?"
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that, and it allows corporations or governments to never suggest certain words or ideas as expressible.
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anyhow, do your own reading, do your own thinking, do your own writing. those things are at the core of our being. why would we want to outsource our humanity?
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I highly recommend this episode of Radiolab on Wubi (a way to type Chinese characters on a standard keyboard) radiolab.org/podcast/wubi.... Toward the end, they talk about how the move to predictive typing literally limits what is expressible. it's a depressing thought!